United Way President Wayne Stevens addressed the Juneau Chamber of Commerce Thursday on ways to find and fund social services in Southeast Alaska. Stevens held up the permanent fund donation program Pick. Click. Give for the giving side of the equation and the phone service Alaska 211 for the social service side.

As the Juneau School District begins deliberations on its 2013-2014 budget, school nurses are calling for more help. Several of Juneau’s school nurses and supporters addressed the JSD board members during public comment period at the board meeting Tuesday night.

JSD Superintendent Glenn Gelbrich has already met with the administrative team that will help guide the creation of the fiscal year 2014 budget. A final version is expected to go before the City and Borough of Juneau Assembly on March 5.

Passengers at the Juneau International Airport may soon have coffee in the lobby again, but don’t take that cup of joe out front for a smoke. Smoking may soon be banned along the curve of the airport’s entrance doors.

Airport Manager Jeannie Johnson said her office is drafting an ordinance to introduce to the City and Borough of Juneau Assembly on Jan. 28.

“Which is really fast turnaround,” Johnson said. However, she said the ordinance would be “very simple.”

The ordinance could also be used by other owners and managers of similar outside space.

The Juneau School District Board of Education has selected the members who will hash out the fiscal year 2014 school budget.

Fiscal year 2014 “promises to be a challenging budget situation,” Sally Saddler said during Tuesday’s meeting.

The committee is set to meet seven times this winter to learn about the school district, review proposals put forth by the Superintendent of schools and hear public testimony before making budget recommendations to the board of education on March 5.

Don’t dust off those ammunition belts quite yet. The Juneau chapter of Veterans for Peace has appealed a permit for Juneau Mercantile and Armory LLC to build an indoor gun range and retail shop near the airport.

Aftershocks from a magnitude 7.5 earthquake shook residents of Craig into the early hours of Saturday morning. The quake occurred around midnight, its epicenter approximately 60 miles west of the Prince of Wales Island community.

“It woke everybody up,” 20-year Craig resident Bob Claus said in a telephone interview Saturday morning, “It was a long one. Things were falling off shelves. It was definitely the biggest I’ve ever felt.”